Culture Archives | Page 3 of 9 | The Washington Institute

Culture • Christianity & Culture

Saint Augustine and the Political Imagination

Kaitlyn Schiess | 8 min read

Many Christians arrive at the end of this election season with a sense of relief regardless of the outcome. The months (or even years) leading up to the election have been divisive and difficult for anyone trying to live a faithful life in our inevitably political world. Churches, schools, and institutions have spent time during...

Faith • Theological Reflections

The Promise and Perils of Faith, Vocation, and Culture: Part II – Suffering for Changing the World

Dr. Bruce Lowe | 8 min read

The New Testament’s Crooked Narrative Arc: In Part I last week, I began by noting that the New Testament is not entirely straightforward when it comes to the subject of faith, vocation and culture. Revelation says that in a certain era — the era in which actual Christians lived — there was a situation where...

Faith • Theological Reflections

The Promise and Perils of Faith, Vocation, and Culture: Part I – The Danger of Nationalism

Dr. Bruce Lowe | 7 min read

Why do the Old Testament Scholars Get All the Fun? This may sound like a strange thing to say, but I’m jealous of those who get to teach the Old Testament. I get paid to teach the New Testament, which I love doing, but I’m envious of those teaching the Old. Why? When it comes...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

Culture is Upstream from Politics: 50 Responses

Dr. Steven Garber | 56 min read

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in November of 2016. When I was a boy, my grandfather and I spent summers buying cattle throughout Colorado. Mostly of course, he was the buyer, but there were moments when, with a certain twinkle in his eye, he would let me be the bidder, nudging me to...

Culture • Current Conversations

The Culture is Still Upstream from Politics

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

The culture is upstream from politics. Like most words that matter, these are ones worth pondering, maybe even debating. Almost four years ago, just after the last national election in the United States, I wrote an essay born of this thesis, inviting 50 friends from throughout America and the world to respond. I asked them...

Culture • Popular Culture

To Keep on Keeping on

Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read

To keep on keeping on. I first remember seeing those words in a “head shop” in Berkeley in the glory days of the counterculture, and they have run through my heart ever since. Mostly playful at the time, with perhaps a little hippie hope built into the graphic of a cartoonish character making his way...

Pages: 123456789

Search

Tag

Culture